# OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34006`
- **Case Number:** 06-1986-0020
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $425K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

OCCIDENTAL OWNS AND OPERATES A POLYVINYL CHLORIDE (PVC)      PLANT AT ADDIS, LOUISIANA, WHICH IT BOUGHT FROM FIRESTONE    TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY ON NOVEMBER 30, 1980.  ON JULY 07,   1983, U.S FILED A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST BOTH COMPANIES FOR    THE VIOLATION OF THE NATIONAL EMMISSION STANDARD FOR VINYL   CHLORIDE.                                                    THE OWNER/OPERATOR OF A PVC PLANT MUST LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF   VINYL CHLORIDE EMITTED DURING THE OPENING OF A REACTOR TO    0.02 G VINYL CHLORIDE/KG PVC PRODUCED.  40 C.F.R. 61.64(A)2. BETWEEN JUNE 01,1981, AND OCTOBER 14, 1983, OCCIDENTAL       EXCEEDED THIS STANDARD ON 533 OCCASSIONS.                    THE SOURCE MUST ALSO LIMIT THE CONCENTRATION OF RESIDUAL     VINYL CHLORIDE IN THE PVC RESIN FOLLOWING STRIPPING TO       400 PPM. 40 C.F.R. 61.64(E). OCCIDENTAL VIOLATED THIS        STANDARD 20 TIMES.                                           DISCHARGES OF VINYL CHLORIDE THROUGH RELIEF VALVES ARE       PROHIBITED EXCEPT IN EMERGENCIES. 40 C.F.R. 61.65(A). THIS   ACTION ALLEGES TWO VIOLATION OF THIS STANDARD.               THIS ACTION SEEKS A CIVIL PENALTY AND AN INJUNCTION AGAINST  FUTURE VIOLATIONS. THE REGION RECOMMENDS A CIVIL PENALTY     OF $635,000.

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